Common use of POLICY ADVISORY Clause in Contracts

POLICY ADVISORY. A. When the Board recommends general policy reforms in the form of Policy Advisory Reports, the Board shall will have the power to recommend that the Chief of Police take certain actions; (1). The Board may recommend general reforms in the form of Policy Advisory reports (such as changes in training, changes in the preservation of records, changes in counseling available to officers) or specific actions directed at individual Department employees (including, but not limited to, hiring, firing, promotion, demotion, punishment, or commendation); (2). However, the Chief of Police shall retain full and ultimate authority, power, discretion, management prerogatives, and responsibility to set policies or take other lawful actions he/she deems appropriate relative to the Department. B. The Board may initiate a Policy Advisory studies upon its own discretion, upon request to the Board by any member of the public or the Department, or upon the request of any other Metropolitan Nashville public safety agency. C. The Chief of Police or the Chief’s Designee, shall agrees to provide a written response to the Board with regard to any Board Policy Advisory recommendation, and to specifically articulate the Department’s position, and its reasons for that position, with regard to the recommendations in the Board’s Policy Advisory Report. within 30 days.